Bug#1017113: glibc FTBFS on Alpha: segfault in setlocale

2022-08-13 Thread Michael Cree
Source: glibc Version: 2.34 Severity: important User: debian-al...@lists.debian.org Usertags: ftbfs Justification: Fails to build from source but built in the past. glibc 2.34 FTBFS on Alpha with a segfault occuring during building locales. From the build log: Generating locale en_US.UTF-8: this

Bug#939898: glibc: setuid/getuid broken on alpha with 2.29-1

2019-09-10 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 10:49:48PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Shortly after typing "root" and pressing enter, the following message is > printed to the > console which seems to be an alpha-specific syscall: > > [ 195.414939] do_entUnaUser: 7 callbacks suppressed No, that is not a

Bug#939898: glibc: setuid/getuid broken on alpha with 2.29-1

2019-09-10 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 11:14:50PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 9/9/19 10:49 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Both on my Alpha XP-1000 as well as inside a qemu-user chroot, upgrading > > glibc > > to version 2.29-1 resulted in setuid/getuid breaking in a weird way: > > To

Bug#792555: binutils: ld reloc sorting causes segfaults on alpha

2015-08-28 Thread Michael Cree
Control: reassign -1 binutils 2.25.1-1 Control: retitle -1 binutils: ld reloc sorting causes segfaults on Alpha This is a binutils bug. Confirmed that it not only causes segfaults in the libc6.1-alphaev67 package but is also the reason for aptitude FTBFS on Alpha. Fixed upstream on the binutils-

Bug#792555: libc6.1-alphaev67 issue now reported upstream

2015-08-25 Thread Michael Cree
Control: tags -1 upstream The segfaults resulting from installing libc6.1-alphaev67 on an Alpha ev67 (or better) system have been isolated down to ld reloc sorting causing crashes in glibc as reported upstream: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18867 I'll leave it for the glibc and

Bug#755397: tst-eintr3 test suite failure on alpha might be due to a kernel bug

2014-07-23 Thread Michael Cree
I am starting to think this tst-eintr3 test suite failure on Alpha might is a kernel bug. My reasoning goes as follows. Nowhere does glibc call the wruniq PALcall thus it is not glibc setting up the thread pointer for a process. The thread pointer is passed as an argument to the clone() syscall

Bug#755397: glibc FTBFS on alpha: tst-eintr3 sometimes fails.

2014-07-20 Thread Michael Cree
Source: glibc Version: 2.19-7 Severity: important User: debian-al...@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha Justification: Fails to build from source but built in the past. The test tst-eintr3 sometimes fails in the build of glibc on alpha and has done so twice in a row in attempting to build 2.19-7. I

Bug#753099: glibc FTBFS on alpha: test suite failures

2014-06-30 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:02:24PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 09:53:30PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > > Source: glibc > > Version: 2.19-4 > > Severity: important > > User: debian-al...@lists.debian.org > > Usertags: alpha > > Ju

Bug#753099: glibc FTBFS on alpha: test suite failures

2014-06-29 Thread Michael Cree
Source: glibc Version: 2.19-4 Severity: important User: debian-al...@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha Justification: Fails to build from source but built in the past. Finally the fixed gcc-4.8 arrived, however the rebuild of glibc on alpha failed with unexpected test suite failures. From the log:

Bug#750996: eglibc FTBFS on Alpha: malloc/malloc.os build failure and testsuite failures.

2014-06-12 Thread Michael Cree
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 02:35:38PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 08:55:42PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > > Aurelien: I guess I should file bugs against gcc-4.8 and gcc-4.9 to get > > that fix into Debian's gcc as the commit does not seem to have been

Bug#750996: eglibc FTBFS on Alpha: malloc/malloc.os build failure and testsuite failures.

2014-06-11 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:08:24PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:45:30PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:25 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > | Note that the asm in question comes from system tap, which has not been > > > | ported to alpha. So

Bug#750996: eglibc FTBFS on Alpha: malloc/malloc.os build failure and testsuite failures.

2014-06-10 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:08:24PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:45:30PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:25 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 08:10:00PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 18:02 +020

Bug#750996: eglibc FTBFS on Alpha: malloc/malloc.os build failure and testsuite failures.

2014-06-09 Thread Michael Cree
Source: eglibc Version: 2.19-1 Severity: important User: debian-al...@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha Justification: fails to build from source but built in the past X-Debbugs-CC: debian-al...@lists.debian.org eglibc FTBFS on alpha for two reasons, firstly, due to the inclusion of systemtap heade

Bug#735774: tls-macros fix now upstream

2014-01-26 Thread Michael Cree
The tls-macros.h fix for eglibc on Alpha is now upstream: 4ab6acaebd0047dc37c6493946484be9f1b4920b alpha: Fix tls-macros.h Cheers Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Bug#735774: eglibc FTBFS on alpha: tls-macros and thunk unwind info fixes

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Cree
Source: eglibc Version: 2.17-97 Severity: Important Tags: patch User: debian-al...@lists.debian.org Usertags: alpha eglibc 2.17 FTBFS on Alpha due to numerous segmentation violations and failures in the test suite. For the version in unstable two fixes are required: the attached patch (which fixe

Re: epoll_create1() available in C, not C++ (on alpha)?

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Cree
On 05/01/12 17:52, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hi, > > By private mail, I got the suggestion that maybe Alpha's epoll.h lacks > "extern C"; I diff'd the two files and that's not the case. Steve, thanks for caring enough about Alpha to follow that one up. I had noted the absence of the epoll_create

Bug#641868: alpha: fallocate() in libc6.1 but no declaration in fcntl.h

2011-09-17 Thread Michael Cree
On 17/09/11 12:08, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Michael Cree wrote: > >> The fallocate() interface is present in libc6.1 on Alpha as is easily >> verified by: > [...] >> Only the posix_fallocate() interface is declared in the headers as >> verified by: > [...

Bug#641868: alpha: fallocate() in libc6.1 but no declaration in fcntl.h

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Cree
Package: libc6.1 Version: 2.13-18 The fallocate() interface is present in libc6.1 on Alpha as is easily verified by: mjc@aleph:~$ readelf --headers --dynamic --symbols /lib/alpha-linux-gnu/libc.so.6.1 | grep fallocate 623: 000e55b0 528 FUNCGLOBAL DEFAULT [: 88] 11 posix_fallocat

Bug#324051: Bogus free space display on Alpha

2011-07-04 Thread Michael Cree
I think the attached patch, courtesy of Gentoo, should finally fix the statvfs problem on Alpha. Without the patch eglibc 2.13 causes major problems on Alpha such as recent versions of apt-get failing to establish the correct free space on the disk and refusing to install any packages. I have bee

Re: Help needed with eglibc 2.13

2011-03-28 Thread Michael Cree
On 28/03/11 06:18, Aurelien Jarno wrote: I have finally been able to fix or workaround all the EGLIBC issues on alpha. Among them, one seems to be really problematic and seems to be a binutils bug. Judging from the recent emails on the list, it seems some people are still interested by working on

Re: Help needed with eglibc 2.13

2011-03-19 Thread Michael Cree
On 20/03/11 10:37, Witold Baryluk wrote: I'm trying compiling eglibc on my alpha box now, but it hangs whole machine after 10 minutes of build process. I compiled libc (I think it was 2.11.2-11) from unstable, to get inotify_init1 and to fix memchr, without any problems and have it installed

Bug#521737: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-09-26 Thread Michael Cree
On 20/09/10 22:18, Michael Cree wrote: On 04/08/10 09:35, Michael Cree wrote: On 4/08/2010, at 1:48 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: (5) Some long-standing compiler and libc issues have been fixed upstream and in Debian, but recently, a build of libc in Debian Unstable failed. I see the memchr seg fault

Bug#521737: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-09-20 Thread Michael Cree
On 04/08/10 09:35, Michael Cree wrote: On 4/08/2010, at 1:48 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: (5) Some long-standing compiler and libc issues have been fixed upstream and in Debian, but recently, a build of libc in Debian Unstable failed. I see the memchr seg fault bug (521737) is still open. I have a

Bug#569646: Alpha: incorrect value for SOCK_CLOEXEC

2010-02-12 Thread Michael Cree
Package: libc6.1-dev Version: 2.10.2-6 Severity: important The include file /usr/include/bits/socket.h defines the value of SOCK_CLOEXEC incorrectly on the Alpha architecture. It currently contains the value for the i386 architecture. It should be the same value as O_CLOEXEC, which, from the ker